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Texas home sales remain strong; housing inventory rises in second quarter of 2019
AUSTIN, Texas, July 23, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Texas home sales remained strong during the second quarter of 2019, while monthly housing inventory increased, according to the 2019-Q2 Texas Quarterly Housing Report released today by Texas Realtors.
“The Texas housing market experienced a strong kickoff to the summer selling season with more than 100,000 homes sold during the second quarter,” said Tray Bates, chairman of Texas Realtors. “While specific conditions vary by market, the statewide trend has good news for sellers and buyers. Sellers are selling for a slightly higher median price, and buyers have access to more properties for sale statewide.”
During the second quarter of this year, 101,896 homes were sold in Texas, an increase of 1% compared to the second quarter of 2018. Statewide, the median price increased 2.9% to $245,000. Of all the homes sold within the second quarter, 32.7% were priced from $200,000 to $299,999, the highest share of sales among all price-class distributions. Homes priced from $100,000 to $199,999 represented the second-highest share of sales with 26.7%.
Jim Gaines, Ph.D., chief economist with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, commented, “While the Texas housing market remained strong in Q2, our markets began slowing down in terms of transaction volume coupled with tight housing inventory. Statewide, we’re seeing more of a separation in sales activity between large cities compared to medium and smaller cities due in part to increased population and job growth concentrated in the major markets. However, we anticipate home sales growth to remain strong in the third quarter of 2019 as a result of the projected lower interest rates and the continuation of the summer selling season.”
Active listings increased 7.5% from the second quarter in 2018 to 116,950 listings. Texas homes spent an average of 55 days on the market during the same time frame, one day more than the second quarter of 2018.
Housing inventory in Texas also grew to 4.1 months of inventory, an increase of 0.3 months from 2018-Q2. According to the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, a market balanced between supply and demand has between 6.0 and 6.5 months of inventory.
Chairman Bates concluded, “Homebuyers and sellers across the state face different market conditions depending on where they reside. Factors such as the number of homes for sale and fluctuating home prices affect each real estate market and even each neighborhood differently. Working with a Texas Realtor will ensure that you’re provided the most accurate information and insights to inform your decision about buying or selling a home.”
About the Texas Quarterly Housing Report
Data for the Texas Quarterly Housing Report is provided by the Data Relevance Project, a partnership among local REALTOR® associations and their MLSs, and Texas REALTORS®, with analysis by the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M. The report provides quarterly real estate sales data for Texas and 25 metropolitan statistical areas in Texas. The Texas Real Estate Year-in-Review Report in February is released in lieu of the Q4 report each year.
About Texas REALTORS®
With more than 125,000 members, Texas REALTORS® is a professional membership organization that represents all aspects of real estate in Texas. We are the advocate for REALTORS® and private property rights in Texas. Visit texasrealestate.com to learn more.
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Goya Foods Donated 2,500 Pounds of Food to Catholic Charities of Boston in Celebration of the Puerto Rican Festival of Massachusetts
BOSTON, July 25, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States, donated 2,500 pounds of food to Catholic Charities of Boston in celebration of the Puerto Rican Festival of Massachusetts on Wednesday, July 24, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. at Catholic Charities of Boston, located at 185 Columbia Street in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
“For Goya, we always strive to do our part to support our communities and encourage others to do the same. We couldn’t think of a better way to celebrate this year’s festival, who work hard to bring the rich culture of Puerto Rico to Massachusetts, than by providing healthy food to people who need it the most,” said Rafael Toro, Director of Public Relations of Goya Foods.
Catholic Charities distributes more than 2.5 million pounds of food each year through their network of food pantries. The donation will go directly to Catholic Charities’ food pantries in the South End of Boston, Somerville and Dorchester, and serve close to 4,200 people each week. “We are deeply grateful for our ongoing partnership with Goya and couldn’t meet the needs of those we serve without committed partners like Goya. In a region where the gap continues to grow between the living wage and the wages many residents actually earn, hunger remains a persistent threat to the wellbeing of many Bostonians,” said Deborah K. Rambo, President of Catholic Charities.
The donation is part of Goya Gives, a global initiative committed to supporting local communities through social and environmental causes. Goya has donated millions of pounds of food to organizations worldwide and continues to support over 300 organizations, events and cultural institutions. “It is an honor to kick off our Puerto Rican Festival weekend by partnering up with Goya and their Goya Gives initiative in the continuous effort of giving back to our communities,” said Edwin Alicea, President of the Puerto Rican Festival of Massachusetts.
Goya’s annual food donations also serve to encourage consumers to participate in the message and act of helping those in need. Consumers can share the #GoyaGives message with friends and family through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @goyafoods
For more information about Goya Foods and the #GoyaGives campaign, please visit www.goya.com.
About GOYA: Founded in 1936, Goya Foods, Inc. is America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, and has established itself as the leader in Latin American food and condiments. Goya manufactures, packages, and distributes over 2,500 high-quality food products from Spain, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. Goya products have their roots in the culinary traditions of Hispanic communities around the world; Goya’s combination of authentic ingredients, robust seasonings, and convenient preparation make Goya products ideal for every taste and every table. For more information on Goya Foods, please visit www.goya.com
About Catholic Charities: Catholic Charities of Boston, one of the largest providers of social services in Massachusetts, operates 75 distinct programs in 26 locations, providing assistance with dignity and respect to individuals of all ages, races, cultures, and religious faiths. Whether through food assistance, help for struggling teens or a variety of services for refugees and immigrants during a time of intense uncertainty, Catholic Charities provides support to individuals for their most basic needs while charting a path to a living wage. For more information please visit http://www.ccab.org.
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Young Living Essential Oils 2019 International Grand Convention Takes Salt Lake City by Storm
LEHI, Utah, July 25, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Young Living Essential Oils, the world leader in essential oils, has successfully concluded its 2019 International Grand Convention (IGC). The IGC is Young Living’s premier educational, networking, and social event. The event is held each summer in Salt Lake City and brings members of the organization together for continued education on best practices, new innovations, essential oil development and usage, and related wellness products offered by Young Living.
This year Young Living celebrated the launch of an array of nutritional supplements, makeup from its Savvy Minerals® makeup line, synthetic-free deodorants and toothpaste, and a new owl-themed diffuser for children. Highlights from the 2019 convention included an inspirational keynote speech from New York Times best-selling author John C. Maxwell, tours of Young Living’s recently opened Global Headquarters and Mona lavender farm, the voyage of the largest blimp to ever traverse Utah airspace, and a closing performance by Imagine Dragons. With the assistance of Guinness World Records™, members of Young Living also set a new world record for the most contributions to a lip print mural in one week, part of the Clean Kisses Record, a branding event for Young Living’s Savvy Minerals makeup line.
Maintaining its position as the authority in essential oil research, Young Living and its D. Gary Young Research Institute also announced a partnership with NASA and the International Space Station (ISS). In the first partnership of its kind, the entities will send essential oils and plant seeds to the International Space Station for study on the effects of solar radiation on the potency of essential oil products. For one month, samples will be housed on the ISS, where they can be exposed to solar radiation and then compared to identical samples left on Earth.
CEO and Co-Founder Mary Young noted that, “In 25 years, Young Living Essential Oils has grown from the dream of my husband and Young Living Founder D. Gary Young to a legacy carried by over 6 million members worldwide. The 2019 International Grand Convention signifies a milestone that we will continue to build upon. Our love for essential oils and the earth from which they come will continue to be the global focus of this company in the next 25 years and beyond as we lead the charge for sustainability and continue to raise the bar for our industry in the areas of science, standards, and ethical sourcing.”
More than 32,000 people attended the 2019 International Grand Convention, arriving from 43 different countries to celebrate the company’s silver anniversary and adding an estimated $23 million to the local economy. Young Living’s next International Grand Convention is scheduled to take place June 17-20, 2020.
About Young Living Essential Oils
Young Living Essential Oils, LC, based in Lehi, Utah, is the world leader in essential oils and distributor of the highest quality of oil-infused products. As stewards of the earth and its people, Young Living paves the way for every essential oil company with its Seed to Seal® standard and its Sourcing, Science, and Standards pillars. These guiding principles protect the planet and ensure that customers can feel good about using Young Living products for themselves, their families, and in their homes. Young Living’s products contain essential oils that all come from corporate-owned or partner farms as well as Seed to Seal-certified suppliers, support a healthy lifestyle, and continue to provide opportunities for over 6 million members to achieve their goals and aspirations by aligning their work with their values and passions. For more information, visit YoungLiving.com, follow @youngliving on Instagram, or like us on Facebook.
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L’ATTITUDE Match-Up to change the Latinx fundraising paradigm
SAN DIEGO, July 25, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — L’ATTITUDE Match-Up is a new program set to launch at L’ATTITUDE 2019 in San Diego where Latinx entrepreneurs will present their businesses, their social impact, their growth potential, and their plans for how an equity investment will enable them to scale.
Match-Up will feature a blockbuster line-up of Matchmakers who are committed to finding the biggest growth opportunities among Latinx businesses in The New Mainstream Economy. Enterprises must have a Latinx founder with no less than 20% ownership and ideally presenting for their Series A or Series B round. Competitors can be in any of eight categories:
Engines of Job Creation – job creating technologies or businesses that directly or indirectly address employment for Latinos
Educational Attainment – addressing education disparities in the Latino community, either with or without technology
Financial Strength – financial technologies, services or financial intermediaries that increase access to financing and financial services for Latinos
Engineering Prowess – companies with a product or service that addresses engineering challenges on a broad scale
Healthy Communities – health tech and healthcare, addressing health disparities or increasing access to health care in the Latinx communities
New Economy Services – tech enabled, traditionally analog businesses which are made scalable by the tech engagement
Media – businesses which include social media and other forms of media engagement
Data Analytics – companies that use technology to source or analyze data in new and interesting ways
Applicants can be in a tech field or a tech-enabled traditional business, and must meet the following criteria:
- Generating revenue
- Seeking equity investment of $250K+
- Have a Latinx founder(s) with at least 20% equity stake in the company
- Company duly organized as a C-corp or LLC in the U.S.
- No outstanding judgments against the Company
- If selected, would prepare and present in person at the L’ATTITUDE Match-Up event in San Diego, CA
Match-Up will also invite live matchmaking with additional investors from the audience, and will offer “Matchmaker Seats” to three to five major investors who are prepared to invest an additional $250K on the spot, pending their own due diligence.
Presentations will take place on September 29, 2019 in San Diego, CA as part of the L’ATTITUDE Event September 26-29th. Entrepreneurs and investors interested in learning more about this new initiative should go online to https://lattitude.net/programs/.
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María Magdalena’s New Book, “Chachita, A Latin Little Girl”, Opens For Us A World Full Of Wonder Where The Courage Of A Little Girl Will Prevail Against The Very Force Of Nature
ORLANDO, Fla., July 25, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — María Magdalena was born on October 10, 1953, in Cuba, La Habana, in a small town called Santiago de Las Vegas, that belongs to the municipality of Boyeros. From a humble family, she studied until she got married, at the age of 17, later she obtained a textile technician diploma and took studies in the German language. As a child she won contests for the best compositions at the school, municipal and regional level, writing represented for her a useful tool, that would help her to reach the most remote corner of the earth.
María Magdalena is a dreamer, her creativity goes a long way and feels a great love for the animal kingdom, she’s committed to its protection. She has four cats, and came to the United States in 2002, took a degree in Real Estate, in which she worked from 2007 to 2012. She attended college to the fifth level, currently lives in Miami, has two sons and one daughter, two granddaughters and a grandson. She’s retired and dedicated to writing her stories, which is what she loves the most.
Our author gives us “Chachita, a Latin Little Girl”; Chachita is a little girl of six years old, who lives in a dangerous place due to the natural conditions of the environment. Her father decides to find another place to live, but Chachita has three friends whom she loves very much and does not want to leave them if there is as much danger as her father says. Our friend will have to do many things to protect them from this threat. With these characters we will experience adventure, sweetness, fiction and unconditional friendship throughout the enchanting story of “Chachita” where respect, understanding and human values go beyond a simple story, leaving a lesson in every reader, finally no matter how old you are, will remember this book over the years
Published by New York City based Page Publishing, María Magdalena wonderful book “Chachita, a Latin Little Girl”, it opens for us an emotional and wonderful world; it brings us a story of courage and love, where our little protagonist will show us that good friends must be protected, at all costs.
Readers who wish to experience this beautiful work can purchase “Chachita, a Latin Little Girl” at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes store, Amazon, Google Play or Barnes and Noble.
For additional information or media inquiries, contact Page Publishing at 866-315-2708.
About Page Publishing:
Page Publishing is a traditional New York based full-service publishing house that handles all of the intricacies involved in publishing its authors’ books, including distribution in the world’s largest retail outlets and royalty generation. Page Publishing knows that authors need to be free to create not bogged down with complicated business issues like eBook conversion, establishing wholesale accounts, insurance, shipping, taxes and the like. Its roster of authors can leave behind these tedious, complex and time-consuming issues, and focus on their passion: writing and creating. Learn more at www.pagepublishing.com.
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Toyota To Reduce Emissions From North American Operations By Up To Forty Percent
PLANO, Texas, July 24, 2019 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) is committing to aggressively reduce its carbon output in the United States by entering into Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs). It will use them to reduce emissions from its North American operations by up to forty percent over the next 3 years.
The move represents another major step towards Toyota’s Environmental Challenge 2050 goal of cutting global emissions from plant operations to zero by the year 2050.
Under the VPPAs, which the company expects to commence later this year, TMNA will contract with renewable energy providers to generate wind and solar power that will be provided directly to regional electric grids. The supply of renewable power is expected to reduce use of fossil fuels while improving the sustainability of the electric grid in the area.
By powering its operations from the enhanced grid and applying Renewable Energy Credits earned by funding the generation of renewable electricity, Toyota expects to substantially offset emissions from its facilities in North America.
“Toyota has long been defined by its commitment to responsible environmental practices, and we’re proud to build upon that great legacy today,” said Kevin Butt, General Manager and Regional Environmental Sustainability Director for Toyota Motor North America. “We are committed to setting an example of sustainability that goes beyond vehicles to show how a company can significantly reduce the environmental impact of its operations. By cutting our U.S. emissions by forty percent, we will be that much closer to our goal of having a net positive impact on the environment by the middle of this century.”
Toyota’s VPPA program is the result of more than six years of research into how best to reduce and offset emissions from the company’s operations, working in partnership with MIT, the National Renewable Energy Lab, the Rocky Mountain Institute, and others. It is part of a wider effort across the company to reduce the environmental impact of enterprise operations as it also works to limit vehicle emissions.
This endeavor supports Toyota’s Environmental Challenge 2050. Launched in 2015, the Challenge sets out six objectives for the company’s global operations, including:
- A ninety percent reduction in global average CO2 emissions from new vehicles vs. 2010 levels;
- The complete elimination of CO2 emissions from the entire vehicle life cycle; zero emissions at all manufacturing plants worldwide;
- Minimizing water usage and implementing water discharge management protocols;
- Promoting global deployment of end-of-life vehicle treatment and recycling, and;
- Connecting and promoting nature conservation activities outside of the Toyota Group in the communities where we operate.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in the U.S. and North America for more than 60 years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands. During that time, Toyota has created a tremendous value chain as our teams have contributed to world-class design, engineering, and assembly of more than 38 million cars and trucks in North America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants (10 in the U.S.) and directly employ more than 47,000 people (more than 37,000 in the U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships (nearly 1,500 in the U.S.) sold 2.8 million cars and trucks (2.4 million in the U.S.) in 2018 – and about 87 percent of all Toyota vehicles sold over the past 16 years are still on the road today.
Through the Start Your Impossible campaign, Toyota highlights the way it partners with community, civic, academic and governmental organizations to address our society’s most pressing mobility challenges. We believe that when people are free to move, anything is possible. For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
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Toyota Motor North America
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